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The Nile Excellence Annual Awards, a national recognition platform celebrating innovation and excellence across Uganda, have crowned Kairamirwa Doreen King, Executive Director of Slum Women Initiatives for Development (SWID), as the Innovator of the Year under the Eastern Region category. The award was presented during the inaugural Nile Excellence Annual Awards ceremony, held on 28th […]
Kamuli District, Uganda — The Slum Women’s Initiatives for Development (SWID) has taken a major step toward transforming Uganda’s cassava sector following a high-level engagement today with the newly launched DEI Group Advanced Agro-Processing Park in Kamuli District. The state-of-the-art facility—officially commissioned on 20 November by H.E. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, President of the Republic of […]
Watch our new documentary, “FAIR FOR ALL,” and discover how women in Kamuli and Kaliro districts are transforming cassava farming into a powerful tool for income, empowerment, and community development. From planting and harvesting to processing cassava into flour, crisps, and cakes, these women are turning humble roots into opportunity and hope. Join us as they share their stories, challenges, and successes, showing how determination, training, and community support are reshaping lives in Eastern Uganda.
Slum woman’s initiative for development trains trainers of trainees picked by the grassroots women from the different groups they represent to act as agents of change. These TOTS support the organization to pass on knowledge and information as well as grassroot women’s groups; To continue member trainings with in their groups To enhance team […]
CASSAVA PESTS AND DISEASES AFFECTING YIELDS IN BUSOGA SUB REGION A BIG THREAT TO FOOD SECURITY. Pests and Diseases is one of the major challenges affecting cassava growing in the Busoga sub region. This has caused poor yields leading to hunger and low living standards, cassava being a drought resistant crop that many families in […]
AGRASSROOT WOMAN SMALL HOLDER FARMER NOW PARTICIPATING IN TRADE, VALUE CHAIN AND VALUE ADDITION. Nangobi Jovia From Kaliro District, Nansololo subcounty Kyisa Kyamukama farmers group. Am a small holder farmer appreciating SWID and the sponsors for the awareness and knowledge about cassava value addition and trade. Today I grow cassava with my group members harvest […]
Grassroot women participation in the climate change fight Human beings co- exist with nature, we receive oxygen from trees and we give them Carbon dioxide, cutting trees is like cutting off our life. Human beings are the man cause of climate change through their actions. Humans and wild animals face new challenges for survival because […]
Slum Women’s Initiative for Development acknowledges the grant fund from African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF ) Towards ; Equiping 100 women community paralegals with skills and knowledge to break barriers to gender inequality and challenges women/girls are facing relating to land access and ownership of land. Raising awareness for women and […]
40 SWID Grassroots women from 3 Districts Kamuli, kaliro and Jinja walukuba got a chance to be taken for a study on fruit tree planting . studied from a farm with about 5000 fruit trees mainly mangoes , pawpaws ,Oranges and Tangerines. Fruit trees contribute to the fight against climate change, they are source of […]
GENDER CLIMATE CHANGE AND FOOD SECURITY IN GRASSROOT COMMUNITIES. The agency of rural female farmers is essential for enhancing agricultural productivity and realizing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including ensuring food security (SDG 2) and addressing the perils of climate change (SDG 13). […]